MAQUETTE UPDATE UPDATE
UPDATE 3 (12/18/14): Inside Higher Ed reports on the suspension. The university’s press release about it is here. UPDATE 2 (12/17/14): There’s an article in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel about McAdams’s suspension. From a letter McAdams received from his dean: “The university is continuing to review your conduct and during this period-and until further notice-you are relieved of all teaching duties and all other faculty activities, including, but not limited to, advising, committee work, faculty meetings and any activity that would involve your interaction with Marquette students, faculty and staff…. You are to remain off campus during this time, and should you need to come to campus, you are to contact me in writing beforehand to explain the purpose of your visit, to obtain my consent and to make appropriate arrangements for that visit” (posted at McAdams’s blog). UPDATE (12/16/14): It looks like Marquette is starting to take some action. But in any event, there you go: irony noted. I suspect that says something about the current climate at Colorado. A woman graduate student is fleeing a harassing environment and finding safe harbor at Colorado? Yes, she is. Please know that your messages made all of the difference to me and I am truly touched and inspired by the concern and kindness demonstrated by those who took the time to reach out to me.” I have tried my best to keep up with the messages of support, but I received an overwhelming number and was unable to respond to every e-mail.
I would like to thank each and every individual who sent a personal message to me, sent a letter to the Marquette administration on my behalf, and/or signed one of the online statements of support. “Although the past month has been a very difficult and distressing time for me, the support and encouragement I have received from philosophers around the world has made this all the more bearable.
Abbate notes that several faculty members at Marquette, including Philosophy Department chair Nancy Snow, have been very supportive of her during the past several weeks. The department’s strengths in normative and applied ethics matches up well with her interests and led her to apply she was recently admitted through an expedited version of the normal process. She had long known one of the faculty there, and has gotten to know several others as a result of presenting her work, twice, at their annual Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Congress.
program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, effective this January. Abbate will be transferring to the philosophy Ph.D.
The Marquette University administration continues to figure out what to do in response to associate professor of political science John McAdams’s unprofessional and harassing conduct towards philosophy graduate student Cheryl Abbate ( previously), the abusive hate mail and commenting it led to, the media attention it generated, the visit by Westboro Baptist Church, as well as the misconduct of the undergraduate who started it all.
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